Grandmaster Kasparov is better known in the United States amongst chess players for his tactical skills and knowledge of this ancient and well-known game among the global community. However, having lived through the end of the USSR and the rise of its current political regime under Vladimir Putin, Kasparov has had concerns with the political nature of his native Russia since his youth. He became disillusioned with the Communist party that had ruled his nation since 1922 (the 1917 government being more of a transitional government) at the age of thirteen when he had traveled to Paris for an international chess competition. This trip gave him a shock about how different nations granted their citizens political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and other liberties that his own at the time did not grant, not to mention past atrocities under Stalin. Kasparov is still acting as a political advocate for his fellow countrymen and for better global relations between the nations. He has participated in many demonstrations that included the likes of Alexey Navalny and Yevgeniya Chirikova. In 2011 he was made chairmen of The Human Rights Foundation, using his position to not only point out the wrongs of his native Russia but her close allies that have also committed human rights violations. His book Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped (2015) is one of his many writings on his political ideologies and concerns.